During yesterday’s snow, rain, ice, cats, storm, the glacier at Westminster and the Service Road advanced back onto the sidewalk. Also, the steps to the City Administrative Building at 444 Westminster Street looked like this for way too long (as of lunch time, there was a pathway cleared).

Too often when construction takes place, sidewalks are simply closed. As seen in this Tweet from Portland Cityscape, it doesn’t have to be that way. New infill construction maintaining #sidewalk access on #seDivision, can we get these #detours elsewhere? @PBOTinfo pic.twitter.com/BWZiuo2o5X — Portland Cityscape (@PDXCityscape) December 1, 2013